
Photo by Dirk Vorderstraße (Mähdrescher von John Deere in der Warburger Börde) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Post 1 in a series of 3. Post 2 : Machine Learning and Econometrics: Model Selection and Assessment Statistical Learning Style Post 3: Machine Learning and Econometrics: Trees, Random Forests, and Boosting Machine learning and artificial intelligence…

I've been inspired by all the live-tweeting of really interesting work at the #ASSA2018 meetings today. Examples here, here, and here. That makes it a good day to post a game-plan for pre-publication research communication that I have been kicking around. A main motivation I have for starting a blog is to communicate more and…

[mathjax] Bitcoin futures (XBT) start trading tonight at 5pm CST on the CBOE. CME Group will launch a bitcoin futures contract next week on December 18, 2017. Source: CBOE The launch of futures contracts for bitcoin is highly anticipated since the cryptocurrency has gained over 1500% this year alone. Before the launch of futures…
The itch to start a blog has come and gone several times for me. Now the itch is back, and I'm going to scratch it. I'll be writing on the following broad themes: Increase Engagement about Research and Economics Academic publishing is notoriously slow. By the time a paper comes out in a publication (often…